So what’s the status here at the moment? Well, last Christmas I crammed a bit on my theory, got spoiled again with goodies by my lovely girlfriend. She gave me a flightbag, classic 70’s blue with a big Aeroflot logo on the side. The headset I ordered has arrived and I’m quite surprised by the sound quality.
I finished reading all books and let it sink in a bit. Yesterday I did a test exam to see what the status was and pfew… that wasn’t easy.
The test exams I generated with a neat little tool called Aero QCM (QCM is a French abbreviation for Multiple Choice Questions) you can install an executable and this will generate several types of exams for you, among others a simulation of the DGAC ULM Theory exam. I didn’t score insufficiently but to say that it was good enough to go into an exam with confidence, and especially because I want my pass rate to be above 95%.
OK people will now call me “very ambitious” but there is a catch to the exam. If you score above 80% you pass for the normal license but above 95% you also pass for the instructors’ part of the theory. So now you know the reason of me being ambitious. If I like flying enough to decide to do more than just carry it out to others, I save valuable time on one exam and start directly on the special theory for instructors (on didactics etc, etc,)
Conclusion is that I need to work hard on especially the weather section. Clouds, wind, turbulence, special weather phenomena and especially the weather charts need my attention. I normally can read weather charts but apparently you are supposed to know the signs and legend used on TEMSI weather charts by heart.
On the other subjects I crossed the wrong answers due to things going lost in translation. French really can be a nasty language for even nastier questions. For example I got a question right but gave the wrong answer due to me giving the wrong definition to the French word “cap” (heading).
So action points for now…
Back to my books; study weather and get myself up to speed and to make sure I don’t f-up my questions due to language I’m going to pass by my favourite Pilotshop here in Luxembourg and pick up the following dictionary. And maybe browse on some books on weather.
Well that the status for now, my exam has finally been planned for the 10th of March but of course I’ll try to update before that.
TTFN
Steph
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